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The awards honor faculty members with outstanding dedication to graduate students & commitment to excellence in graduate training.

He will serve as the chancellor’s liaison to the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and assist in the development of the University’s next strategic plan.

Those being honored at the 145th event May 19 are Aaron J. Ciechanover, Anna Crosslin, Steve Fossett, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John F. McDonnell.

While students first took evening classes at the University in 1854, it wasn’t until 1931 that the night school became “University College.”

Photo by Joe AngelesApril 27 was the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day; the University offered several programs for children ages 8-12.

She was named a “Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor” in 2002 and is now one of eight scientists to have their original grant funding renewed in 2006.

The following incidents were reported to University Police April 26-May 3. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. April 28 12:24 p.m. — A […]

If some patients with heart disease don’t take their doctor’s advice to quit smoking, they are probably going to get “shocking” reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

“U.S.-China Business Relations” is the focus of a three-day academic symposium that kicks off with a public conference from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 11 in Room 311, Anheuser-Busch Hall. U.S.-China commercial relations and intellectual property rights are among topics to be covered.

Washington University in St. Louis will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature, during the university’s 145th Commencement ceremony May 19. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students.